The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Page 3
(b) Owing to the reduction in the size of the page it has been necessary to shorten some of the headlines, and here advantage has been taken of various corrections of and additions to the headlines and shoulder-notes made by Butler in his own copies of the two books.
(b) Aufgrund der Verkleinerung des Seitenformats war es notwendig, einige der Überschriften zu kürzen, und dabei wurden verschiedene Korrekturen und Ergänzungen der Überschriften und Randnotizen berücksichtigt, die Butler in seinen eigenen Exemplaren der beiden Bücher vorgenommen hatte.
(c) For the most part each of the illustrations now occupies a page, whereas in the original editions they generally appeared two on the page.
(c) Die Illustrationen nehmen nun größtenteils je eine Seite ein, während sie in den Originalausgaben im Allgemeinen zu zweit auf einer Seite erschienen.
It has been necessary to reduce the plan of the House of Ulysses.
Es war notwendig, den Grundriss des Hauses des Odysseus zu verkleinern.
On page 153 of "The Authoress" Butler says: "No great poet would compare his hero to a paunch full of blood and fat, cooking before the fire (xx, 24-28)."
Auf Seite 153 der „Authoress" sagt Butler: „Kein großer Dichter würde seinen Helden mit einem Wanst voller Blut und Fett vergleichen, der vor dem Feuer brät (xx, 24-28)."
This passage is not given in the abridged Story of the "Odyssey" at the beginning of the book, but in the Translation it occurs in these words:
Diese Stelle findet sich nicht in der gekürzten Inhaltsangabe der „Odyssee" am Anfang des Buches, wohl aber in der Übersetzung, wo sie folgendermaßen lautet:
"Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible; even so did he turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single-handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men as the wicked suitors.
„So schalt er sein Herz und zwang es zur Geduld, doch wälzte er sich umher wie jemand, der einen Wanst voller Blut und Fett vor einem heißen Feuer wendet, ihn erst auf die eine Seite, dann auf die andere dreht, damit er so schnell wie möglich gar wird; ebenso wälzte er sich von einer Seite auf die andere und sann die ganze Zeit darüber nach, wie er es, auf sich allein gestellt, anstellen sollte, eine so große Schar von Männern wie die frevelhaften Freier zu töten.
Vocabulary
- Aufgrund
- Because of, on account of something
- Verkleinerung
- Reduction, making something smaller in size
- Seitenformats
- Page format, size of a printed page
- war
- Was, past tense of sein (to be)
- notwendig
- Necessary, required, essential for something
- einige
- Some, a few, several items or people
- Überschriften
- Headlines, headings, titles above text sections
- kürzen
- To shorten, abbreviate, or reduce in length
- dabei
- In doing so, in the process, at the same time
- wurden
- Were, past passive auxiliary form of werden
- verschiedene
- Various, different, several kinds of things
- Korrekturen
- Corrections, edits made to fix errors
- Ergänzungen
- Additions, supplements, complementary insertions
- Randnotizen
- Marginal notes written in the margins of a book
- berücksichtigt
- Taken into account, considered, included in something
- eigenen
- Own, belonging to oneself personally
- Exemplaren
- Copies, individual specimens of a printed book
- beiden
- Both, referring to two things or people
- Bücher
- Books, plural of Buch
- vorgenommen
- Made, carried out, undertaken (past participle of vornehmen)
- hatte
- Had, past tense of haben (to have)
- Illustrationen
- Illustrations, pictures accompanying a text
- nehmen
- To take, occupy, or use something
- nun
- Now, at this point in time
- größtenteils
- Mostly, for the most part, largely
- je
- Each, ever, per unit; here meaning each one
- Seite
- Page, side; one face of a printed sheet
- während
- While, whereas, during a period of time
- Originalausgaben
- Original editions, first published versions of a work
- Allgemeinen
- In general, generally speaking, as a rule
- zweit
- Second, as in two per page (zu zweit)
- erschienen
- Appeared, were published (past participle of erscheinen)
- Grundriss
- Floor plan, ground plan, outline of a building
- Hauses
- Of the house, genitive of Haus
- verkleinern
- To reduce, make smaller in scale or size
- sagt
- Says, states; third person singular of sagen
- Kein
- No, not a, none; negative article
- großer
- Great, large, major (adjective, strong declension)
- Dichter
- Poet, writer of verse or literary works
- würde
- Would, conditional auxiliary form of werden
- Helden
- Heroes, protagonists of epic or heroic stories
- Wanst
- Paunch, belly, especially a fat protruding stomach
- voller
- Full of, filled with a substance
- Blut
- Blood, the red fluid in living bodies
- Fett
- Fat, grease; fatty tissue or substance
- vergleichen
- To compare, draw a comparison between things
- vor
- Before, in front of, prior to something
- Feuer
- Fire, flames; burning combustion producing heat
- brät
- Roasts, fries; third person singular of braten
- Diese
- This, these; demonstrative pronoun or article
- Stelle
- Passage, place, spot; a specific textual location
- findet
- Finds, is found; third person singular of finden
- sich
- Itself, oneself; reflexive pronoun (third person)
- gekürzten
- Shortened, abridged (past participle used as adjective)
- Inhaltsangabe
- Summary, synopsis, brief outline of content
- Anfang
- Beginning, start of something
- Buches
- Of the book, genitive of Buch
- wohl
- Probably, indeed, well; modal particle of supposition
- aber
- But, however, yet; coordinating conjunction
- Übersetzung
- Translation, a text rendered into another language
- wo
- Where, in which place or context
- folgendermaßen
- As follows, in the following manner
- lautet
- Reads, runs; third person singular of lauten
- schalt
- Scolded, rebuked; past tense of schelten
- Herz
- Heart, the organ; also seat of emotions
- zwang
- Forced, compelled; past tense of zwingen
- Geduld
- Patience, the ability to endure calmly
- doch
- But, yet, however; emphatic or contrastive particle
- wälzte
- Rolled, tossed; past tense of wälzen
- umher
- Around, about; indicating restless movement
- wie
- Like, as, how; comparison or manner
- jemand
- Someone, somebody, an unspecified person
- heißen
- Hot; here adjective in plural/dative form
- wendet
- Turns, flips; third person singular of wenden
- erst
- First, at first, only then
- dann
- Then, afterwards, at that point
- andere
- Other, the other side or option
- dreht
- Turns, rotates; third person singular of drehen
- damit
- So that, with that, in order to
- schnell
- Quick, fast, rapid in movement or action
- möglich
- Possible, feasible, able to be done
- gar
- Fully cooked; also intensifier meaning quite/at all
- wird
- Becomes, will be; third person singular of werden
- ebenso
- Just as, likewise, in the same way
- sann
- Pondered, brooded; past tense of sinnen
- ganze
- Whole, entire, the full amount of something
- Zeit
- Time, a period or duration
- darüber
- About it, over it, regarding that matter
- nach
- After, to, towards; also according to
- allein
- Alone, by oneself, only, solely
- gestellt
- Set, placed, positioned (past participle of stellen)
- anstellen
- To do, to get up to; to employ or cause
- sollte
- Should, was supposed to; past subjunctive of sollen
- große
- Large, great, big (adjective, weak declension)
- Schar
- Crowd, throng, large group of people
- Männern
- Men, dative plural of Mann
- frevelhaften
- Wicked, insolent, criminal (adjective describing wrongdoers)
- Freier
- Suitors, men who court a woman for marriage
- töten
- To kill, to slay, to put to death
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